On the Origins of Brigh

[Saleem Halabi]

I'm running Return of the Rune Lords at the moment, and one of my players is playing a devout follower of Brigh. I'm looking to see if there is any information about her that I missed that I could use to fill in some story points. Is it published anywhere when/how she became a deity? She is currently only a demigod, so odds are it was relatively recent (on a cosmic scale). I'm mostly wondering because....

Massive Return of the Runelords Spoilers:

In book 6, where the players travel to the Dimension of Time they get a vision of their past selves. The player in question has the Intrigued by Thassilon trait, and I was thinking of having them see their past self as an ancient Thassilonian/Azlanti clockwork engineer working on the most advanced clockwork they have ever seen. Basically hinting that the PC's past life was the one that originally built her own Goddess in the past.

I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything thats already out there.

[Adam Daigle]

There is a six-page article about Brigh in Pathfinder #86, but it doesn't say much about her origin. In fact, what it says about her origin is this:
"Brigh is so inscrutable that even her own priesthood maintains several theories regarding her origin. Some claim that she was once mortal and obtained godhood through some unknown means. Others preach she was originally a created being that moved beyond the faculties of a normal construct and gained a spark of life and divinity."

[James Jacobs]

Given the presence of clockworks in Thassilon, I think it makes a lot of sense for Brigh to have been around long before then.

[Saleem Halabi]

James Jacobs wrote:

Given the presence of clockworks in Thassilon, I think it makes a lot of sense for Brigh to have been around long before then.

That's what I had thought before I noticed that the Azlanti already had a god interested in clockwork in Aesocar, and that Brigh was only a Demigod. I figured if she was only a demigod she had probably hadn't been doing the deity thing terribly much longer (on a deific scale) as many of the other other younger full gods. (Kurgess, Milani etc), but was one of the more recent ones like Nivi Rhombodazzle or Hanspur.

Either way thanks for the insight!

[Saleem Halabi]

Oooo, Just hit on a solution.

More Return of the Rune Lords Spoilers:

The character's Thassilonian past life WAS the one that created Brigh, but due to her (the PCs current incarnation) interference from the Dimension of Time, reaching back to touch on her past life at the exact moment he created the Brigh Construct, it catapulted the Goddess into a deity both forwards and backwards to all points in time. Thus inscrutably she was a goddess before her construction was complete. This also serves as the catalyst for her mythic ascension, since I am giving my PCs 1 mythic rank when they get to Stethelos.